Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Over 83,000 brands and millions of information workers trust Smartsheet to help them accelerate business execution and address the volume and velocity of today’s collaborative work. Sound hard? It’s not. In fact, according to Forrester, over 92% of our customers say that Smartsheet is easy to deploy and use, and 96% of them would recommend Smartsheet to a colleague.

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company capable of returning a spacecraft from low Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in 2010. The company made history again in 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX successfully achieved the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket in 2017, and the company now regularly launches flight-proven rockets. In 2018, SpaceX began launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two. As one of the world’s fastest growing providers of launch services, SpaceX has secured over 100 missions to its manifest, representing over $12 billion on contract. These include commercial satellite launches as well as US government missions. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is flying numerous cargo resupply missions to the space station under a series of Commercial Resupply Services contracts. Dragon was designed from the outset to carry humans to space and will soon fly astronauts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Building on the achievements of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, SpaceX is working on a next generation of fully reusable launch vehicles that will be the most powerful ever built, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

Sila Nanotechnologies produces highly efficient batteries for use in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, the power grid and electric flight. Utilizing "drop in" methods that allow factories to produce our cells with existing technology and production equipment, we make the process of producing batteries easy and efficient. This innovation is not only limited to production processes. Our silicon-dominant anode products replace graphite entirely, delivering higher energy density.

In 2006, we at Adyen had a vision: We wanted to create a platform capable of meeting the rapidly evolving needs of today's fast-growing global businesses with the goal of helping small businesses grow. Our platform enables merchants to accept payments in a single system, enabling revenue growth online, on mobile devices and at the point of sale. We love to help people achieve our dreams, so let us do the same for you!

Orb is developer-first billing infrastructure built to help companies succeed with usage-based pricing. We handle all the complexity of turning millions of usage data points into a simple invoice, so companies don’t have to staff whole engineering teams on billing. We power monetization for the building blocks of the internet.

Monte Carlo is leading one of the most promising emerging categories in SaaS, Data Reliability. Monte Carlo helps data teams manage data reliability in the same way that New Relic helps engineering teams manage application reliability. As companies invest millions to become data-driven, Monte Carlo helps solve one of the biggest challenges data/analytics/ML teams face today: making sure data can be trusted at all times by minimizing data downtime. Founded in 2019 by Barr Moses and Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo is backed by Accel, GGV, the former Chief Technologist of Cloudera, and former Chief Data Scientist of the United States.

Source is the developer data management infrastructure for the open web. With an expected 75% of the data generated by humanity to be at the edge, developers at organizations of all sizes face complex challenges in managing distributed data. Our database, DefraDB, along with our Trust Protocol, SourceHub, provides developers with the tools to create and deploy software for edge environments. With native cryptographic primitives for data security, granular data governance, and interoperability and portability across the edge. We address the crucial aspects of edge data management, empowering developers to introduce the next wave of local-first software and edge AI for smart cities, industry 4.0, automotive, health care and beyond.

Radiant Security is an autonomous MDR that automates security operations using machine learning and AI to triage and investigate incidents with consistency, accuracy, and scale only achievable via software. Deployed in minutes via API, Radiant Security provides rapid time to value and immediately reduces analyst workloads by as much as 95%. The solution uses a knowledge graph that continually learns about an organization’s security and IT environment, then employs an autonomous decision-making engine to emulate the processes used by a seasoned security analyst. This software-based approach to security operations radically reduces the time and cost of performing security operations, thus freeing up resources for other initiatives.

AllVoices is an anonymous reporting and communication platform that enables employees to safely report harassment, bias, culture issues, share feedback, and ask questions - directly to their company's leadership. Companies get reporting with a communication channel and data insights that help them improve company culture proactively.

Matter is on a mission to help companies build world-class cultures. Companies that use Matter experience employees who feel valued and recognized—leading to employees being 3x more engaged, 31% less likely to leave, and 91% more productive when they regularly receive recognition. Our platform empowers teams to celebrate wins, give recognition, and gather feedback directly within Slack and Microsoft Teams, making it simple to build a culture of appreciation. Matter was founded by Brett Hellman, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Hall, which was acquired by Atlassian in 2015. Since then, Matter has been doubling revenue year over year and is proud to be a profitable, fast-growing startup. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground floor of a company that’s scaling rapidly. If you’re looking to make an impact and be part of a high-growth journey, Matter is the place to be.